Confucius Institutes at U.S. Institutions of Higher Education Waiver Criteria for the Department of Defense (2023) / Chapter Skim
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2 Characteristics and Features of Confucius Institutes
2 Characteristics and Features of Confucius Institutes
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The committee, through the information gathering conducted in support of this report, finds it is possible to implement measures on campus to mitigate -- but not to fully eliminate -- the risks associated with the presence of a CI and protect academic freedom, freedom of expression and dissent, and national security. Therefore, the committee developed waiver criteria it believes will protect U.S.
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for Fiscal Year (FY) 2021, which called for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to conduct this consensus study, defines the term "Confucius Institute" as a "cultural institute directly or indirectly funded by the Government of the People's Republic of China."1 Later legislation expanded the definition of CI to a "cultural institute established as a partnership between a United States institution of higher education and a Chinese institution of higher education to promote and teach Chinese language and culture that is funded, directly or indirectly, by the Government of the People's Republic of China."2 1 William M
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.3 The committee does not intend for this definition to capture Chinese language and culture partnerships funded through other nongovernmental funding channels, scientific and technological research partnerships and collaborations, or the Chinese Students and Scholars Association organization. CURRENT LANDSCAPE The committee identified 10 open CIs and 7 closing or paused CIs in the United States in March 2022 and is aware of 7 open CIs4 in the United States as of December 2022.5 Of the 7 open CIs, only 3 submitted data to the National Science Foundation's Higher Education Research and Development Survey (HERD)
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. While not all of these institutions shared the reasoning behind their CI closures, Bryant University President Ross Gittell stated in a 2021 letter to the community that the CI closure was the result of "changes that are taking place in China and regarding U.S.-China relations…" (Bryant University, 2021; NBC 10, 2021)
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. The publicly stated reasons for closure collected by the National Association of Scholars were analyzed by National Academies staff (Appendix D)
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. CIs in some of these nations, including Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, and the UK, are encountering similar issues as those in the United States as their respective relationships with China deteriorate and as they further contemplate the academic freedom and national 11 See https://www.plu.edu/confucius-institute/agreements/.
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. This comes immediately after the September 2022 report released by the Henry Jackson Society, a trans-Atlantic, UK-based think tank, which presents the following series of recommendations regarding CIs in the UK: • The UK government should introduce legislation to remove CIs from UK universities; • There must be an immediate investigation regarding the legality of CIs' staff recruitment practices; • The UK government should add an amendment to the Higher Educa tion (Freedom of Speech)
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• The structure, operations, and management of CIs in the United States varies from institution to institution.
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